After having so much fun in last week’s column writing about robins, I thought, let’s explore tree frogs. Turns out there are a lot of interesting facts about these amphibians. This time of year, as ...

Eiffinger's tree frogs lay eggs in an isolated water bodies such as a gap between plant stems. Their tadpoles hold onto their poop for months to reduce risk of contaminating their small spawning areas ...

Some tadpoles don’t poop for the first weeks of their lives. At least, that’s the case for Eiffinger’s tree frogs (Kurixalus eiffingeri), scientists report September 22 in Ecology. Eiffinger’s tree ...

Around 600 California red-legged frog tadpoles have been released back into the Santa Monica Mountains — after they were rescued from extreme weather by the National Park Service and taken to Long ...

The Aquarium of the Pacific has welcomed tadpoles — which will grow into endangered yellow-legged frogs — that were rescued from local wildfire-scorched mountains, officials for the Long Beach ...

Wiggly, slimy water critters don’t bother W.L. Henry Elementary School’s Future Field Guides at all. In fact, bullfrog tadpoles and Pacific tree frog tadpoles and water worms and damselfly larvae and ...